About Laura Millar & CV

Laura Millar, MPH, MA | she/they

Sexual health work My approach Background & CV My story Community leadership

I’m a public health professional, sociologist, and sexologist. Through sexual health education, community organizing, and consulting, I advance disability justice, consent, and equitable access.

As a blind, queer, neurodivergent mother with multiple disabilities, I bring lived experience alongside professional and academic training. Sexual health is a central part of my work, within a broader public health commitment to changing the conditions that shape people’s choices, participation, and well-being.

A red clitoris mascot holds a white cane beneath a Blind & Proud banner, with a group of colorful clitoris mascots behind it, some also carrying canes.

Carrie Buck Distinguished Fellowship

In 2025, I was named a Carrie Buck Distinguished Fellow at the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy, Brandeis University. The fellowship recognizes work at the intersection of disability and reproductive justice.

My fellowship conversation with Rebecca Cokley, Permission, Pleasure, and Power: Consent as the Foundation for Disability and Reproductive Justice, explored sexual ableism, autonomy, and how consent culture can support meaningful access to relationships, education, and care.

Watch the keynote conversation (ASL & captions) or watch the fellowship film (audio description & captions).

My sexual health work

My sexual health practice connects education about bodies, pleasure, intimacy, safer sex, relationships, consent, and reproductive autonomy with research and professional training. I bring experience developing programs for blind youth and adults and examining how people find and use sexual health information. Explore my education work or explore my work on sexual healthcare access.

My approach

Disability justice, blind positivity, and sex positivity guide my work. I pay attention to ableism, internalized ableism, and the ways power and assumptions can limit people’s choices. Consent culture belongs in daily interactions, classrooms, organizations, public policies, and services, as well as intimate relationships.

Cultural humility means listening, examining my assumptions, and learning with the people involved. Harm reduction means sharing information and options without shame. There is room for pleasure, curiosity, interdependence, humor, and belonging alongside serious work on barriers and accountability.

Laura Millar, a white woman wearing a dark blue dress and name badge, stands behind a table of tactile reproductive anatomy models and sexual health resources. A poster reads feeling sexy.

Professional background & CV

My background brings together public health research, sexual health education, professional training, community organizing, and policy advocacy. I have worked with young people and adults, educators, healthcare and rehabilitation teams, and disability communities.

Projects, talks, interviews, and writing are organized under the five offerings, where you can see how that experience informs the work. Explore my work by offering.

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Education & professional development

Master of Public Health, Community Health Education, San Francisco State University, 2009.
Master of Arts in Human Sexuality, San Francisco State University, 2015.
Bachelor of Science in Health Science, with an option in Health Education, California State University, Chico.
Sex Educator Training and Certification, San Francisco Sex Information, 2016.
Certificate in Nonprofit Management, California State University, East Bay.
Graduate, Colorado Center for the Blind, 2022.

My learning also includes training in consent and leadership and mentorship from disability rights and disability justice advocates. I continue to connect that learning with the knowledge of the communities I work alongside.

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The experiences that shaped my work

Growing up in East Africa with parents in the medical field introduced me to different cultures and public health approaches. Learning about female genital cutting in Eritrea helped me understand the importance of cultural humility and harm reduction. In Kenya and Uganda, I saw the impact of HIV and AIDS alongside the strength of families and communities. Visiting a program for former child soldiers in Mozambique deepened my interest in restorative and transformative justice.

My path toward blind positivity and sex positivity has also been personal. Mixed messages about sexuality and experiences of sexual abuse shaped my commitment to consent culture. After a diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa in my early twenties, I spent years wrestling with internalized ableism and my changing relationship with blindness.

Finding blind community changed what I believed was possible. Community members shared practical skills, resources, and a sense of belonging. They helped me recognize that learning, pleasure, relationships, and self-direction belong to blind people, too. That experience continues to shape how I coach, teach, and organize.

Laura Millar walks with her guide dog at the San Francisco Pride Parade, leading the LightHouse contingent and holding a Blind & Proud sign.

Community leadership

I serve on the board of the National Federation of the Blind of California and as Second Vice President of its San Francisco Chapter. My community work has also included co-founding the Colorado Center for the Blind’s Alumni Association, the Bay Area Blind Community, and the Blind Sexuality Access Network.

Community gave me access to knowledge, skills, and relationships that changed my life. Giving back means helping create spaces where people can learn from one another, challenge barriers, and shape decisions that affect them.

A cross-disability contingent at the Women’s March in Oakland holds a banner reading The American Dream Must Be Accessible.

Work with me

Explore the five connected areas of my work:

Contact me about coaching, education, speaking, or a project.